Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 20:53:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Michael Day <michaeld@hit.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: video Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510205247.2508N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3556705F.9FBC7D25@hit.net>
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On Sun, 10 May 1998, Michael Day wrote: > Does anybody know how to get FreeBSD to recognize and on-board video > that uses shared memory??? It will recognize the card but not the > shared memory??? FreeBSD (XFree86 actually) does not support these types of adapters. The issues in mapping that RAM are horrendous. Mapping contiguous memory is hard enough, getting it in the right place is worse. By shared memory I assume you mean that it grabs part of the system RAM for the video RAM space. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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